I don’t mean for a student housing. Where do you buy your furniture? From sofa, tables, beds, …
Dania, ScanDesign, and Schoenfeld. These are probably local/regional to my area of PNW. A few items from IKEA but not any upholstery.
Thanks, @BunsenBurner. I think I know them except Schoenfeld.
We’ve bought locally at a Jordan’s. Also from Costco. Our dining set came from local Scandinavian furniture stores. We need new bedroom furniture and I am thinking of getting this either from Costco or Wayfair.
Mostly a consignment store.
Is anyone else sensitive to the manufactured wood in furniture at Ikea and other places? I also have trouble with mattresses. Some futons will be okay.
So I go with used, preferably quality.
If anyone has suggestions for sensitive people, let me know 
Our most recent purchases (trestle table and tall cabinet) were from Restoration Hardware, patio furniture from Frontgate. However, I recently helped our son select a sectional for his family room. We got online together over the phone and found the style he wanted, and then he hunted for the best version and price which he found at Macy’s which was running a 4th of July sale. Furniture often goes on sale over holidays so, whatever you find, you might wait or ask to see if the item(s) will be on sale over Labor Day.
I bought a sofa at Living Spaces. I have bought several things from either Pottery Barn or the Pottery Barn Outlet (Pottery Barn Outlet also has West Elm and Williams Sonoma I think some of what I bought is Pottery Barn and some of it is West Elm). I like Crate and Barrel and CB2. I have a few things from Ikea. I like my Poang chair from Ikea.
I’ve bought Ethan Allen and Pottery Barn furniture in the past. I’ve recently ordered a coffee table frame Crate & Barrel. It depends on the kind of look you’re going for.
We will look for a new family room couch at Raymour and Flannigan, a furniture store. Last sofa we got came from…big lots and it’s our favorite!
I like ScanDesign kind of look that doesn’t shout too much Scandinavian. Modern without being sleek, functional with charm, etc.
Alot from Ashley’s. Their stuff isn’t bad… just don’t expect it to last forever. Some of my better furniture is from Ethan Allen, Haverty’s, and local shops that carry brands like Thomasville. Some of my accent furniture is from Amazon and Wayfair, but they’re really hit or miss. I bought a gorgeous blue console table for my living room, and they sent me a much smaller white one. I got to keep the white one so it ended up in S’s bedroom as a media console. They sent me the right table but it took some hoop-jumping.
I sort of expect to either not get the right thing or for some piece of it to come damaged. As long as you don’t mind being patient and dealing w/ customer service, it tends to work out well.
I haven’t bought furniture in many years, and most of the places are out of business now, sadly. We bought our real wood kitchen table and chairs from a local place, and our living room furniture came from Domain, a store that used to be in malls.
Believe it or not, our family room furniture came from Woodward and Lothrop. (Woodies - went out of business in the 90s). It’s nice leather furniture, and would have been a fortune except they were going out of business AND my ex MIL worked there. It is at least 22 years old at this point.
My son and his GF wound up getting their sofa at the Lazy Boy store (and they are early 20s - makes me laugh).
Regarding Ashley, I thought it was interesting that their prices were cheaper on-line, and they wouldn’t match them in the store, when my son was shopping in January. (Of course they could have ordered on-line, but they went to LazyBoy and they loved the sofa they got).
We are on a IKEA budget!
Latest purchases in the last couple years?Amazon (metal platform bed), IKEA (mattress), Wayfair (2 living room accent chairs), Target (coffee table).
Ethan Allen for family room and living room upholstery pieces. Problem is the sofa/ loveseat / chair are still in very good condition (14 yrs) but I need a change of fabric and style.
Reupholster if you like them?
Our living room and sun porch furniture was largely from a very longtime local furniture store or two that went out of business - I was able to with very careful planning snag two beautiful leather couches and other pieces for not cheap but inexpensive for the quality prices. We use them fully but I really take care to clean and nurture them because i want them for a very long time!
I actually HATE (big box) furniture stores because I seem to like very little of what they have. Oversized, over padded furniture it seems! I think my taste is high end but my budget is not!
Other furniture like our dining room table and hutch type cabinet and bedroom dressers are antiques - my dining room furniture is well over 100 years old and came from my aunt who inherited them from her husband’s mother - my aunt never had a house big enough to use them and they were in her attic her whole life!
I am in the market for a new bed - I will likely look at someplace like Wayfair.
I recently bought new living room furniture. I went to a small home store in my area. The staff helped me design the space & find furniture/fabrics … without a “designer” fee. They carry a couple furniture lines that they trust, as well as one of a kind pieces. I was happy shopping that way.
In the past, I traveled to NC to shop in the High Point area.
in normal times … antique stores and auctions. I know a wonderful upholsterer.
In the past year, there have been amazing deals on mid-century furniture at our local auctions, also, Stickley, and all the Williamsburg style sets of the 1950s & 60s. Great value, but time consuming process.
Same as @compmom . We love shopping/just browsing furniture at consignment store. It’s exciting to find one of a kind item from the past.
Local/regional retailers similar to Ashley’s. The kitchen table we gave to older S came from Ashley’s. We now have an on Subway booth.
My senior year of college, I lived in an apartment with two other poor roommates. We had literally no den furniture. We had one beanbag chair and a TV on a crate. H got tired sitting on the floor when he came to visit, so he bought me a couch from a local motel chain (on par with Red Roof Inn or maybe a step below) when they were remodeling. It cost $65. Later, we got a matching loveseat. It lasted as our den furniture for our first 11 years of marriage! I can’t help but laugh now, but when you have nothing you just make do.